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2022-08-0302 min
FaberBooksBritain Alone Audio Book ExtractA magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain’s post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit.
In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years later the rebuke rings true again. Britain’s postwar search for its place in the world has vexed prime ministers and government since the nation's great victory in 1945: the cost of winning the war was giving up the empire.
After the humiliation of Anthony Eden’s Suez expedition, Britain seemed for a time to have found an answer...
2021-03-2301 min
FaberBooksExcavate! Audio Book ExtractA definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans.
To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations, choc-stock-full of loving Acts by true Apostles, simultaneously both the scrapbook you wished you'd kept and a portal to futures & pasts, known & unknown, & a Fantastic Celebration of this Nation's Saving Grace.'
DAVID PEACE
'Mind blowing... brilliant.'
TIM BURGESS
’A container sized treasure trove bursting at the hinges with strangeness and wonder ... I st...
2021-03-2302 min
FaberBooksNervous Conditions Audio Book ExtractSet in Rhodesia in the 1960s, almost twenty years before Zimbabwe won independence and ended white minority rule, the novel’s heroine, Tambudzai Sigauke, embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for “personhood,” to no longer be part of such an “undistinguished humanity.”
Immediately acclaimed by Alice Walker and Doris Lessing, the book has come to be considered one of Africa’s most important novels of the twentieth century.' Madeleine Thien
2021-03-2302 min
FaberBooksOutline Audio Book ExtractThe first in Rachel Cusk's critically-acclaimed trilogy, shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Goldsmith Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Prize. Read by Kristin Scott Thomas.
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures...
2021-03-2302 min
FaberBooksBessie Smith Audio Book Extract'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music
'[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin
Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.
Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies, making her a star. Smith’s life was notoriously difficult: she drank pints of...
2021-03-2302 min
FaberBooksKlara and the Sun Audio Book ExtractKlara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
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From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.
2021-03-2302 min
FaberBooks'Public Library, 1988' from Soho by Richard ScottSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy...
2021-02-0301 min
FaberBooksNicola Upson reads from The Dead Of WinterDECEMBER 1938
Storm clouds hover once again over Europe
Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected arrival of a world-famous film star, in need of sanctuary – interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins.
Pivoting on a real moment in history, the ninth novel in the Josephine Tey series draws on all the much-loved conventions of the Golden Age Christmas mystery, whilst giving them a thrilling contemporary twist.
Buy Now: https://uk.booksh...
2020-11-1211 min
FaberBooksAmelia Gentleman on The Windrush BetrayalJournalist of the Year 2019 Amelia Gentleman talks about The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment, her acclaimed book on the Windrush scandal longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Orwell Prize.
‘It is impossible to overstate the importance of this heartbreaking book.’ James O’Brien
‘Devastating . . . One of the most shameful episodes of our history is revealed.’ Claire Tomalin, New Statesman Books of the Year
How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years?
Amelia Gentleman’s exposé of the Windrush scandal – whe...
2020-11-0503 min
FaberBooksSam Riviere: Epigram [63]Welcome to After Fame – an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam Riviere’s process-derived works.
It was Martial who first used the term ‘plagiarism’ in its modern sense as a kind of literary theft. Here, the notion is tested even further through the figure of a distracted scribe who, by means of various methods of transcription, including the use of machine translation and creative embellishment, presents a copy of Martial’s famous Book I unlike any other. These 118 poems cover timeless themes such as work, friendship, public life and s...
2020-11-0300 min
FaberBooksMelissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of ThingsMelissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things is Apple's top-rated nature podcast. Here is a selection of extracts from the series, which Melissa recorded in the spring, summer and autumn of 2020. It ties in with her book, The Stubborn Light of Things, a nature diary published in November 2020. Melissa Harrison is the acclaimed author of the novels At Hawthorn Time and All Among the Barley.
Listen to the podcast here: https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/
Find out about the book here: https://melissaharrison.co.uk/books/
Audio production and editing by Peter Rogers: https://twitter.com/whistlebump
2020-11-0211 min
FaberBooksRandomly Moving ParticlesRandomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American politics. It is a clarifying action and reaction between terra and solar system, mundanity and possibility, taking us from the grit of road surfaces to the distant glimpses of satellites. The final poem, ‘How Do the Dead Walk’, combines mythic reach with acute observation of the familiar, in order to address issues of contemporary violence. It is a...
2020-09-3001 min
FaberBooksJoe Dunthorne: WorshipO Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction.
Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret – the ‘lounge of our suffering’. Often, he catches us off-guard: a ‘whiplash’ effect where poems shift from laughter to slaughter in a moment. Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists – such characters dramatise our human fancies and foibles, joining the protagonist in scenarios both humorously bizarre and all-too-familiar. These performances serve to pro...
2020-09-1501 min
FaberBooksTen Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (4)Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E. Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening...
2020-08-2603 minFaberBooksTen Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (5)Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E. Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening...
2020-08-2602 minFaberBooksTen Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (3)Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E. Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening...
2020-08-2604 minFaberBooksTen Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (2)Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E. Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening...
2020-08-2607 minFaberBooksTen Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (1)Simon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E. Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening...
2020-08-2602 minFaberBooksTen Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: PrologueSimon Hall reads from the opening of his history book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E. Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening...
2020-08-2601 min
FaberBooksNicola Upson reads from Sorry For The DeadNicola Upson reads an extract from Sorry for the Dead, which is Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020.
Summer, 1915: a young woman falls to her death at Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. But was it an accident?
Twenty years later, Josephine Tey is faced with the accusation that it was murder, and that she was complicit in the crime. Can she clear her name and uncover the truth, exposing the darkest secrets of that apparently idyllic summer?
'Haunting . . . Superlative.' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month
'A terrific novel.' A. N. Wilson
Nicola Upson's debut...
2020-07-1301 min
FaberBooksMatthew Francis: YellowAdventurous and illuminating, Matthew Francis’s new poetry collection is full of flight, air and possibility. Read by the author.
Matthew Francis’s latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the ‘witchy-beetle, forkin-robin’ of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke’s microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym...
2020-07-0601 min
FaberBooksMary Jean Chan reads FlècheFlèche (the French word for ‘arrow’) is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan’s young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable (‘flesh’) and weaponised (‘flèche’), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world.
Central to the collection is the figure of the poet’s mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively...
2020-07-0201 min
FaberBooksJulia Copus reads StoriesTaken from Julia Copus’s collection, Girlhood, – a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the forces that threaten to destroy them.
Reading these poems, we have the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Lost, censored or disparaged voices speak out from secluded spaces and moments of hidden history: from within a professor’s office and a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; through changing weathers, fidgety shadows and the witching hour.
Girlho...
2020-06-1801 min
FaberBooksParis by Hope Mirrlees read by Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson'An immersive, polyphonic adventure.' Deborah Levy
Celebrating 100 years since first publication of 'modernism's lost masterpiece' (Julia Briggs).
In just twenty-two pages, Hope Mirrlees combines sensuous psychogeography with modernist avant garde poetics to create a dazzling single-day journey through interwar Paris in the eyes of a jaded flâneuse. Sights, smells, music, gem-encrusted tortoises, shrouded monuments – it's a truly glorious and immersive evocation of Paris in the springtime.
The cover of our edition is inspired by Sonia Delaunay's modernist designs, while she was living in Paris in the 1920s (with thanks to Eleanor Crow). The text inside reproduces, in Caslon Old...
2020-06-1115 min
FaberBooksNatalie Diaz reads Manhattan Is A Lenape WordManhattan is a Lenape Word
Natalie Diaz
It is December and we must be brave.
The ambulance’s rose of light
blooming against the window.
Its single siren-cry: Help me.
A silk-red shadow unbolting like water
through the orchard of her thigh.
Her, come—in the green night, a lion.
I sleep her bees with my mouth of smoke,
dip honey with my hands stung sweet
on the darksome hive.
Out of the eater I eat. Meaning,
She is mine, colony.
The things I know aren’t easy:
I’m the only Native American
on the 8th floor of this hotel or...
2020-06-0903 min
FaberBooksIlya Kaminsky – We Lived Happily During The WarIlya Kaminsky reads We Lived Happily During the War, from Deaf Republic.
We Lived Happily During the War
BY ILYA KAMINSKY
And when they bombed other people’s houses, we
protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of mo...
2020-06-0401 min
FaberBooksFaber Book of the Week | A Mind To MurderA piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming façade. Professionally, he has never known the taste of failure. Now, for the first time, he feels unsure of his own mastery as he battles to unmask a cool killer who is proving to b...
2020-06-011h 04
FaberBooksEmily Berry reads Emily DickinsonEmily Berry reads Emily Dickinson's poem 419, We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.
2020-05-2800 min
FaberBooksFaber Book of the Week: This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health by Nathan Filer, part 2A journey into the heartland of psychiatry.
This book debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mentally ill.
And what it means to be human.
This is an extract from Costa Prize-winner Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, read by the author.
'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran
'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink
'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand
'Brilliant . . . I love it.' Phillippa Perry
'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health.' Joanna Cannon
This...
2020-05-1840 minFaberBooksFaber Book of the Week: This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health by Nathan Filer, part 1A journey into the heartland of psychiatry.
This book debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mentally ill.
And what it means to be human.
This is an extract from Costa Prize-winner Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, read by the author.
'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran
'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink
'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand
'Brilliant . . . I love it.' Phillippa Perry
'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health.' Joanna Cannon
This...
2020-05-1832 min
FaberBooksHow to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)Read By Barbara Kingsolver‘Writing poems is a conundrum for me, not my professional identity, but a passion as deep as memory.'
We're pleased to announce Barbara Kingsolver's revelatory poetry collection, How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons).
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) offers emotionally rich reflections on the practical, the spiritual and the wild. The book’s interwoven sections form a carefully patterned whole, from its ‘How to’ poems balancing wry pragmatism with illuminating wisdom, to its quiet, clear-eyed elegies examining death as a vivid slice of life. From start to finish, the poignant meditations in this generous collecti...
2020-05-1801 min
FaberBooksWendy Cope reads The Damage to the PianoIn her first collection of new poetry since 2011’s acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates ‘the half-forgotten stories of our lives’ with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experience of childhood and marriage and writing poignantly about the passing of time. In several of the poems she reimagines Shakespeare in unorthodox fashion; in others she offers heartfelt tributes to friends and to public figures including Eric Morecambe and John Cage.
Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formal brilliance and empathetic insight which have delighted readers for years, and shows why Wendy Cope is one of...
2020-05-1500 min
FaberBooksIshion Hutchinson reads Marina by T.S. EliotIshion Hutchinson reads an extract of Marina by T.S Eliot. Hear the whole poem here: #ShareAPoem
2020-05-0702 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 13: Graham Farmelo interviews Lance Dixon‘The most perfect microscopic structures in the known universe’ – that is the exquisite description of sub-nuclear scattering amplitudes given by theorist Lance Dixon, based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California. Having made his name as a string theorist in the 1980s, Dixon became one of the leading pioneers in the field of scattering-amplitudes, developing a host of ingenious ideas and techniques. In this thoughtful interview, he describes why he switched his research focus, the fascination and importance of the amplitudes, and the prospects for the subject’s future.
This is one of twenty interviews given by world-class experts to Graham o...
2019-07-0918 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 12: Graham Farmelo interviews Robbert DijkgraafThe Dutchman Robbert Dijkgraaf is a rarity – not only is he a top-class mathematical physicist, he is also one of the world’s finest science communicators. In this bracing interview with Graham, Dijkgraaf lucidly describes the state of modern fundamental physics and the continually surprising – and extraordinarily productive – symbiosis between this science and modern mathematics. As Graham says: ‘Robbert gives us a real tour de force.’This is one of twenty interviews given by world-class experts to Graham on the themes he explores in his new book The Universe Speaks in Numbers. A new interview is posted every week.
Among the other in...
2019-07-0922 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 11: Graham Farmelo interviews Greg MooreScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Greg Moore.
Physics and mathematics seem to be in ‘pre-established harmony’, a phrase that has long been popular with physicists and mathematicians working at the subjects’ interface. Greg Moore, based at Rutgers University, has discovered many surprising new relationships between quantum field theories and the string framework and concepts in contemporary mathematics. In this interview, he eloquently describes examples of this and explains why he is promoting the notion of ‘physical mathematics’, a discipline that he believes is now well established, with a bright future.
This is one of twenty interviews given by world-clas...
2019-06-2418 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 10: Graham Farmelo interviews Freeman DysonScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Freeman Dyson. Freeman Dyson talks about his being both a theoretical physicist and a mathematician, the troubled relationship between mathematics and physics in his youth, the impressive physicist he knew (no, it’s not Feynman) and string theory. This interview was recorded last summer at the IAS, Princeton, in Freeman’s office – and he’s as lively, counter-orthodox and fearless as ever.
This is one of twenty interviews given by world-class experts to Graham on the themes he explores in his new book The Universe Speaks in Numbers. A new interview is posted every we...
2019-06-1315 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 9: Graham Farmelo interviews Michela MassimiWhat do philosophers of physics do, and what light might they shed on the work of today’s physicists and astronomers? Michela Massimi, a distinguished philosopher of science at the University of Edinburgh, discusses these and other matters with Graham in this lively interview, recorded last March in Michela’s office. She has a bracingly optimistic vision for her subject in the coming decades, as Graham heard.
This is one of twenty interviews given by world-class experts to Graham on the themes he explores in his new book The Universe Speaks in Numbers. A new interview is posted every week.
Amon...
2019-06-0722 min
FaberBooksNathan Filer reads from The Heartland: Finding and Losing SchizophreniaSchizophrenia: whether it’s the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it – and how we treat people living with it – is at the core of how we understand mental health.
But what do we really know? How much time do we spend listening? Do we truly comprehend this complex and often contradictory diagnosis?
In The Heartland Nathan Filer, mental health nurse and award winning writer, takes us on a journey into the psychiatric wards he once worked on. He also invites us to spend...
2019-06-0604 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 8: Graham Farmelo interviews Juan MaldacenaScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Juan Maldacena. Juan Maldacena has been described as the first great theoretician of the twenty-first century. In a series of brilliantly imaginative insights, he has enriched our understanding of gravity, space-time and black holes. During this relaxed and informative interview with Graham, recorded last summer in Princeton, Maldacena describes how he became interested in modern physics, his astonishing discovery of an equivalence between a string theory and a quantum field theory. He also gives his views about the current state of our understanding of the universe and prospects for the future of theoretical...
2019-05-3017 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 7: Graham Farmelo interviews Roger PenroseScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Roger Penrose. Sir Roger Penrose, a hybrid mathematician-cosmologist, is one of the most accomplished scientific thinkers of the past fifty years. In this compelling interview with Graham, Penrose describes some of the key events of his remarkable career.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2823 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 1B: Graham Farmelo interviews Nima Arkani-Hamed (part 2)Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed(part 2). This is the second part of Graham’s interview with Nima Arkani-Hamed, recorded at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Here, Nima is in brilliant form as he recalls how he fell in love with scattering amplitudes – aptly described by the theoretician Lance Dixon as ‘the most perfect microscopic structures in the known universe.’
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2818 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 6: Graham Farmelo interviews Michael GreenScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Michael Green. Michael Green is one of the pioneers of the string framework. In collaboration with the Caltech theorist John Schwarz, he made a crucial breakthrough that led in 1984 to the what became known as the First String Revolution.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2821 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 5: Graham Farmelo interviews Edward WittenScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Edward Witten. Edward Witten is widely regarded as the pre-eminent theoretical physicist of the past four decades. Based at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he has made dozens of path-breaking contributions to both physics and mathematics.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2826 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 4: Graham Farmelo interviews Val GibsonScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Val Gibson. Val Gibson is a leading experimental particle physicist and is head of the high energy physics research group at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University Cambridge. She is a prominent member of one of the teams of experimenters at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2822 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 3: Graham Farmelo interviews Simon SchafferScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Simon Schaffer. Simon Schaffer is not only a leading historian of science but also a great teacher. He is without peer in his ability to illuminate how thinking about thinking about the natural world developed into our modern understanding of physics, often in ways unknown to most physicists today.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2833 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 2: Graham Farmelo interviews Michael AtiyahScience writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Michael Atiyah. In an interview with Graham last November, Sir Michael Atiyah described how he became a ‘quasi-physicist. Ten weeks later, Atiyah was dead. He was one of the most accomplished mathematicians of the past century: no one had done more in the past decades to discover close links between pure mathematics and fundamental physics. Undoubtedly a great mind, he was also an indomitable spirit.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2826 min
FaberBooksThe Universe Speaks in Numbers 1: Graham Farmelo interviews Nima Arkani-Hamed (part 1)Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with leading theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, who gave Graham an inspiring interview about the mysterious harmony between pure mathematics and fundamental physics. First of a two-part interview.
Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html
2019-05-2819 min
FaberBooksLanny by Max Porter (audiobook extract)An extract from the incredible audiobook interpretation of the Sunday Times top ten bestselling novel Lanny by Max Porter, read by a cast of narrators.
2019-05-2308 min
FaberBooksTo Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine (audiobook extract)*Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller*
*Shortlisted for Costa Book Awards 2018*
'The best memoir I've ever read.' Dolly Alderton
An audiobook extract from Viv Albertine's acclaimed autobiography To Throw Away Unopened, read by Jasmine Blackborrow.
2019-05-2307 min
FaberBooksBilly Bragg reads from The Three Dimensions Of FreedomSinger-songwriter, author and activist Billy Bragg reads from his new book The Three Dimensions of Freedom, in which he argues the urgent case for accountability. This is an extract from the audiobook of The Three Dimensions of Freedom, which is out now.
2019-05-2303 min
FaberBooksApple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty (audiobook extract)Listen to an audiobook extract from Louise Doughty's best-selling smash hit novel, Apple Tree Yard (later adapted into a BBC One drama starring Emily Watson). Read by Juliet Stevenson.
2019-05-2204 min
FaberBooksMilkman by Anna Burns (audiobook extract)A short audiobook extract from Anna Burns' Milkman, the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Read by Brid Brennan.
2019-05-2201 min
FaberBooksSimon Armitage reads his poem 'Last'Simon Armitage, the UK's new Poet Laureate, reads 'Last', a poem from his new book, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic, which brings together work from across his writing career. This is an extract from the audiobook edition of Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic, available from all good audiobook retailers now.
2019-05-2201 min
FaberBooksMoby reads from his memoir Then It Fell ApartIn this exclusive audiobook extract from his new memoir Then It Fell Apart, Moby, riding high on the international success of his album Play, reflects on the pitfalls of fame.
Then It Fell Apart is available now as ebook, print edition and audiobook: http://moby.com/book/buy
2019-05-1700 min
FaberBooksDinner at David Bowie's (Moby reads from Then It Fell Apart)In this audiobook extract from Then It Fell Apart, Moby recounts an evening spent at the home of David Bowie and Iman, along with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.
Then It Fell Apart, the new memoir from Moby is out now: http://moby.com/book/buy
2019-05-1701 min
FaberBooksMoby reads from Then It Fell Apart (audiobook extract)Listen to an extract Then It Fell Apart, the latest memoir from Moby: a journey into the black hole of fame, a place where sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll seem to fasten the whole thing together – until it all starts to fall apart...
http://moby.com/book/buy
2019-05-1701 min
FaberBooksRachael Allen reads 'Prawns of Joe'Poet Rachael Allen reads 'Prawns of Joe', from her debut collection Kingdomland (Faber & Faber, 2019).
2019-02-1301 min
FaberBooksRachael Allen reads Monstrous HorsesRachael Allen reads 'Monstrous Horses', taken from her debut poetry collection, Kingdomland (Faber & Faber, 2019).
2019-02-1300 min
FaberBooksRachael Allen reads Lunatic UrbaineRachael Allen reads the poem 'Lunatic Urbaine' from her new collection, Kingdomland (Faber & Faber, 2019).
2019-02-1200 min
FaberBooksFaber Members Presents: Literature & Psychoanalysis - Josh Cohen on Conversations with FriendsFaber Members Event 20/11/18. Josh Cohen discussions presentations of families in Sally Rooney's Conversation with Friends, as part of Faber Members' Literature & Psychoanalysis series.
2019-01-221h 20
FaberBooksFaber Members Presents: Mark Wigglesworth & Nicholas Hytner in ConversationFaber Members Event 12/11/18. Acclaimed conductor Mark Wigglesworth and renowned theatre director Nicholas Hytner discuss the many parallels between their professions.
2019-01-2248 min
FaberBooksRachael Allen reads KingdomlandListen to Rachael Allen read the title poem from her debut collection, Kingdomland (published by Faber & Faber, January 2019).
2019-01-1701 min
FaberBooksFielder by Zaffar KunialA poem from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection Us, written and read by Zaffar Kunial.
2019-01-1101 min
FaberBooksPrayer by Zaffar Kunial'Prayer', read by Zaffar Kunial. Us, the debut collection by Zaffar Kunial is out now and is shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2018.
2019-01-1101 min
FaberBooksThe Word by Zaffar KunialAward-winning poet Zaffar Kunial reads 'The Word', a poem from his debut collection, Us (Faber & Faber 2018).
2019-01-1100 min
FaberBooksSelf Portrait as Bottom by Zaffar KunialListen to Zaffar Kunial reading his poem 'Self Portrait as Bottom', taken from his debut collection, Us (2018).
2019-01-1002 min
FaberBooksMichael Diamond reads an exclusive extract from Beastie Boys BookIn this exclusive chapter extract from the recently released Beastie Boys Book audiobook, Michael 'Mike D' Diamond describes the experience of seeing Black Flag at the Peppermint Lounge in 1981, a gig that would be a catalyst for a number of bands forming, including the Beastie Boys.
2018-11-2307 min
FaberBooksBeastie Boys Book, audiobook extract – Wild Card (An Introduction) by Adam HorovitzFormed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of band members, Adam "AD-ROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond.
Over 40 A-list stars narrate the Beastie Boys Book audiobook including, Steve Buscemi, Jarvis Cocker, Elvis Costello, Chuck D, Nadia Dajani, Michael Diamond, Snoop Dogg, Will Ferrell, Kim Gordon, Adam Horovitz, LL Cool J, Spike Jonze, Bette Midler, Mix Master Mike, NAS, Amy Poehler, Chloe Sevigny, Jon Stewart, Ben Stiller and many more.
In this clip, Adam Horovitz reads...
2018-10-3105 min
FaberBooksBook To Book episode 3 with Sue Prideaux – the Faber podcastBook to Book is a podcast from Faber, inviting authors to discuss their new work and a book that inspired them. In this third episode, hosted by George Miller, he interviews Sue Prideaux, author of a revelatory new biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, I Am Dynamite!
2018-10-1635 min
FaberBooksBook To Book episode 2 with William Atkins – the Faber podcastBook to Book is a podcast from Faber, inviting authors to discuss their new work and a book that inspired them. In this second episode, hosted by George Miller, he interviews travel writer William Atkins about his new book The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places.
2018-10-1631 min
FaberBooksBook To Book episode 1 with Stephen Moss – the Faber PodcastBook to Book is a podcast from Faber, inviting authors to discuss their new work and a book that inspired them. In this first edition, hosted by George Miller, he interviews naturalist and Guardian writer Stephen Moss, about his new book Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names.
https://www.guardianbookshop.com/mrs-moreau-s-warbler.html
2018-05-1530 min
FaberBooksThe Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - ExtractAn Extract from Ishiguro's 'The UnConsoled' – an extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571283897-the-unconsoled.html
2018-05-1405 min
FaberBooksJeremy Irons reading T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - ClipA clip of Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons reading T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' from a landmark recording released April 2018.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571342709-the-poems-of-t-s-eliot-read-by-jeremy-irons.html
2018-05-1405 min
FaberBooksKismet by Luke Tredget - ExtractAn extract from 'Kismet' by Luke Tredget – a love story about imperfect people in a world obsessed with perfect matches.
https://www.faber.co.uk/shop/fiction/9780571334872-kismet.html
2018-05-1405 min
FaberBooksUntitled read by Sophie CollinsSophie Collins reads her poem 'Untitled', taken from her debut collection Who Is Mary Sue (Faber & Faber, 2018)
2018-04-1800 min
FaberBooksWho Is Mary Sue? read by Sophie CollinsSophie Collins reads her poem 'Who Is Mary Sue?' from her debut collection of the same name, published by Faber in February 2018.
2018-04-1306 min
FaberBooksHannah Sullivan reading 'You, Very Young in New York'Hannah Sullivan reads 'You, Very Young in New York' from her debut collection, THREE POEMS.
2018-01-1819 min
FaberBooksCollusion by Luke Harding – sample chapter on the Trump/Russia scandalJonathan Aris reads from Luke Harding's explosve book Collusion, on the Trump/Russia scandal.
Audiobook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collusion-Russia-Helped-Trump-White/dp/B0783QTRJ3/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1512061880&sr=1-1-spell
2017-11-3003 min
FaberBooks1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over radio adHere's John Lloyd introducing the joys of the new QI book, 1,423 QI FACTS TO BOWL YOU OVER.
2017-11-3000 min
FaberBooksBook of the Week: Collusion by Luke HardingCollusion by Luke Harding is a gripping exposé about the biggest political scandal of the modern era, and #1 New York Times bestseller. This is an extract of the audiobook, read by Jonathan Aris.
Moscow, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government.
London, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect's connections with Russia. Harding follows two leads: money and sex.
Washington, January 2017. Steele's explosive dossier alleges that the Kremlin has been 'cultivating, supporting, and assisting' Trump for years and that they have compromising information a...
2017-11-1652 min
FaberBooksMoved by the Beauty Of TreesThe poet Ishion Hutchinson reads 'Moved by The Beauty Of Trees', which features in his collection, 'House of Lords and Commons' (Faber & Faber 2017).
2017-11-0700 min
FaberBooksThe Lords and Commons Of SummerIshion Hutchinson reads his poem 'The Lords and Commons of Summer' taken from his new collection 'House of Lords and Commons' (published by Faber & Faber 02.11.2017)
https://www.faber.co.uk/shop/poetry/9780571340149-house-of-lords-and-commons.html
2017-11-0704 min
FaberBooksAfter The Hurricane read by Ishion HutchinsonThe award-winning poet Ishion Hutchinson reads his poem, 'After the Hurricane' from his collection 'House of Lords and Commons.'
See: www.faber.co.uk/shop/poetry/9780571340149-house-of-lords-and-commons.html
2017-11-0701 min
FaberBooksFaber Poetry Podcast – Daljit NagraDaljit Nagra discusses his poetic practices and his most recent collection British Museum (2017) with George Miller.
2017-05-1630 min
FaberBooksDavid Keenan Takeover Part 2The second part of David Keenan's, author of This Is Memorial Device, takeover of Faber Social.
2017-03-2432 min
FaberBooksDavid Keenan Takeover Part 1Part of David Keenan's, author of This Is Memorial Device, takeover of Faber Social.
2017-03-2436 min
FaberBooksWinter by Emily BerryA poem read by Emily Berry, taken from her most recent collection Stranger, Baby, published by Faber in February 2017.
2017-03-2401 min
FaberBooksProcession by Emily BerryEmily Berry reads 'Procession', taken from her 2017 collection Stranger, Baby.
2017-03-2401 min
FaberBooksEverything Bad is Permanent by Emily BerryAward-winning poet Emily Berry reads her poem 'Everything Bad is Permanent', which features in her second collection, Stranger, Baby.
2017-03-2402 min
FaberBooksPaul Auster reads from 4321An excerpt from the audio book of 4 3 2 1, read by the author, Paul Auster.
2017-01-3146 min
FaberBooks01 Steel Teeth "Maggie's Den" from Callisto (ST-13)01 Steel Teeth "Maggie's Den" from Callisto (ST-13) by FaberBooks
2016-11-1604 min
FaberBooks03 Chinese Moon "Thrumming" from Hitch In Time/Thrumming/Phasing (ST-101)03 Chinese Moon "Thrumming" from Hitch In Time/Thrumming/Phasing (ST-101) by FaberBooks
2016-11-1608 min
FaberBooks02 Kazoo Icing Compass "Austerity 1" from The New Austerity (ST-69)02 Kazoo Icing Compass "Austerity 1" from The New Austerity (ST-69) by FaberBooks
2016-11-1603 min
FaberBooksWell Love - Alan Bennett reads from Keeping On Keeping OnBestselling playwright and author Alan Bennett reads an exclusive extract from his new book, Keeping On Keeping On (Profile Books and Faber & Faber, 2016).
2016-10-2000 min
FaberBooksKazuo Ishiguro: On The Remains of the Day and Other Books (Part 2)In part two of our interview we discuss Kazuo Ishiguro's earlier books, including the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled, which on publication baffled critics but is now viewed as one of the author's greatest achievements. There's discussion too of Ishiguro's childhood and memories of Japan, and what he's working on next. Here's part one of our interview: http://soundcloud.com/faberbooks/kazuo-ishiguro-on-nocturnes.
2011-04-1328 minFaber Authors SpotlightKazuo Ishiguro: On The Remains of the Day and Other Books (Part 2)In part two of our interview we discuss Kazuo Ishiguro's earlier books, including the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled, which on publication baffled critics but is now viewed as one of the author's greatest achievements. There's discussion too of Ishiguro's childhood and memories of Japan, and what he's working on next. Here's part one of our interview: http://soundcloud.com/faberbooks/kazuo-ishiguro-on-nocturnes.
2011-04-1328 min
FaberBooksKazuo Ishiguro: On Nocturnes and Other Books (Part 1)In a special two-part interview, George Miller talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his new book Nocturnes, a collection of longish short stories with related themes of music and night, and ambition and disappointment. Under discussion are the challenges of writing in an unfamiliar form, and Ishiguro's approach to writing comedy. Here's the second part of the interview: https://soundcloud.com/faberbooks/kazuo-ishiguro-on-the-remains.
2011-04-1324 minFaber Authors SpotlightKazuo Ishiguro: On Nocturnes and Other Books (Part 1)In a special two-part interview, George Miller talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his new book Nocturnes, a collection of longish short stories with related themes of music and night, and ambition and disappointment. Under discussion are the challenges of writing in an unfamiliar form, and Ishiguro's approach to writing comedy. Here's the second part of the interview: https://soundcloud.com/faberbooks/kazuo-ishiguro-on-the-remains.
2011-04-1324 min